Leo Matiz - FRIDA KAHLO

Columbian photographer Leo Matiz (1917-1998) was a legend in photography. He was born in Aracataca, the magical town that appears as Macondo in A Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez. Cartoonist, painter, gallery owner, publisher and actor, he was a leading figure in one of the most creative periods for photography and cinema in Mexico, between 1940 and 1950, and is considered one of the greatest photographers of the 20th century.
While living in Mexico from 1940 to 1948, he met and photographed painter Frida Kahlo in Coyoacan, a district of Mexico City where the artist had lived from childhood. The twenty 50x60 cm silver-gelatin prints, printed from the original negatives on warm toned  Maco Multibrom WA paper,  were donated to Ezio Pagani’s Sicilian contemporary art museum (Museum - Osservatorio dell’arte contemporanea in Sicilia) by the foundation, Leo Matiz Fundación, in  Bogotà, whose director is Alejandra Matiz, the photographer’s daughter.